1 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:06,800 Well, good morning and welcome to you. 2 00:00:07,400 --> 00:00:09,000 It's good to see everybody this morning. 3 00:00:09,700 --> 00:00:12,600 I don't know if we have any guests, but if we do, welcome to 4 00:00:12,600 --> 00:00:15,100 New Life Community Church. If you don't know me, my name is 5 00:00:15,100 --> 00:00:17,700 Jasper. I'm the associate pastor here, 6 00:00:17,700 --> 00:00:21,800 but it looks like most people here are familiar so it is good 7 00:00:21,800 --> 00:00:24,500 to be with you all. Today we're going to be 8 00:00:24,500 --> 00:00:27,200 continuing through our Series in Psalms. 9 00:00:27,900 --> 00:00:29,600 We've been doing this for the last few years. 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:32,800 During the summer will go through several different songs 11 00:00:32,800 --> 00:00:37,300 as a way of learning how to To align our hearts with God's 12 00:00:37,300 --> 00:00:38,900 heart. And so we're doing that again 13 00:00:38,900 --> 00:00:42,100 this summer. It's a great opportunity to let 14 00:00:42,100 --> 00:00:45,700 some of the other guys get up and preach and so it's always a 15 00:00:45,700 --> 00:00:47,200 good time. I love doing this. 16 00:00:47,200 --> 00:00:50,400 The Psalms are beautiful. And so today is no different. 17 00:00:50,500 --> 00:00:54,600 If you have your Bibles turn to Psalm 33, we're going to be 18 00:00:54,600 --> 00:00:59,200 reading Psalm 33 today. Now, I don't have a lot of 19 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:03,200 background for you on Psalm 33, so we're not going to waste a 20 00:01:03,208 --> 00:01:07,600 lot of time with that today. Psalm 33 is a Psalm of praise, 21 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:12,500 it was a song that was written, very much with joy and adoration 22 00:01:12,500 --> 00:01:15,400 for the Lord. It was not a Psalm of lament or 23 00:01:15,400 --> 00:01:19,000 anything like that. This is an upbeat Happy song and 24 00:01:19,000 --> 00:01:20,700 so we're going to see that in just a moment. 25 00:01:20,700 --> 00:01:23,600 We don't know who the author is. The author of Psalm 33 is 26 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,200 unknown like many Psalms. That were not sure of the 27 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:30,300 There's a lot of speculation that that could be David and 28 00:01:30,300 --> 00:01:32,400 rightly. So, but we just don't know, man. 29 00:01:32,400 --> 00:01:33,900 It's not really important at this point. 30 00:01:33,900 --> 00:01:37,300 What matters is what this Psalm is teaching us. 31 00:01:37,400 --> 00:01:40,100 And so we're going to take a close look at this today and 32 00:01:40,100 --> 00:01:43,800 just kind of dig for some some nuggets of gold in this Psalm if 33 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:46,600 you will. So if you would, if you can 34 00:01:46,600 --> 00:01:51,700 stand with me and we're going to read Psalm 33 at this time, 35 00:01:53,500 --> 00:01:57,700 Shout for joy in the Lord. Oh you righteous. 36 00:01:58,700 --> 00:02:02,800 Praise befits. The upright, give thanks to the 37 00:02:02,800 --> 00:02:06,700 Lord with the liar, make Melody to him with the harp of ten 38 00:02:06,700 --> 00:02:08,699 strings. Sing to him. 39 00:02:08,699 --> 00:02:12,900 A new song play skillfully on the strings with loud. 40 00:02:13,000 --> 00:02:18,600 Shouts for the word of the Lord is upright, and all his work is 41 00:02:18,600 --> 00:02:22,900 done in faithfulness, he loves righteousness. 42 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:27,000 And Justice, the Earth is full of the steadfast. 43 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,300 Love of the Lord by the word of the Lord, the heavens were made. 44 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:35,500 And by the breath of his mouth, all their host, he gathers, the 45 00:02:35,500 --> 00:02:40,100 Waters of the sea as a heap, he puts the deeps, and storehouses, 46 00:02:40,700 --> 00:02:44,900 let all the Earth fear, the lord, let all the inhabitants of 47 00:02:44,900 --> 00:02:50,200 the world stand in awe of him. For he spoke. 48 00:02:50,300 --> 00:02:54,600 And it came to be, he commanded and it stood firm. 49 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,500 The Lord brings the counsel of the nation's to nothing. 50 00:02:58,800 --> 00:03:01,500 He frustrates. The plans of the people's, the 51 00:03:01,500 --> 00:03:06,300 counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart 52 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:10,400 to all generations. Blessed is the nation whose God 53 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:15,700 is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen, as his Heritage, the 54 00:03:15,700 --> 00:03:19,700 Lord looks down from heaven. He sees All the children of man, 55 00:03:19,700 --> 00:03:22,800 from where he sits enthroned. He looks out on all the 56 00:03:22,800 --> 00:03:26,300 inhabitants of the earth. He who fashioned the hearts of 57 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:30,300 them all and observes their deeds, the king is not saved by 58 00:03:30,300 --> 00:03:33,200 his great Army. A warrior is not delivered by 59 00:03:33,200 --> 00:03:37,000 his great strength. The war horse is a false hope 60 00:03:37,100 --> 00:03:41,400 for salvation and by its great might, it cannot rescue. 61 00:03:42,200 --> 00:03:47,500 Behold the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him all those, 62 00:03:47,600 --> 00:03:52,000 who hope in his steadfast, love that he made the liver, their 63 00:03:52,000 --> 00:03:58,000 soul from death, and keep them alive and famine, our soul waits 64 00:03:58,000 --> 00:04:01,100 for the Lord. He is our help and our shield 65 00:04:01,300 --> 00:04:04,900 for our heart is glad and him because we trust in His holy 66 00:04:04,900 --> 00:04:07,800 name. Let your steadfast love O Lord 67 00:04:07,800 --> 00:04:10,900 be upon us even as we hope in you. 68 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:14,000 Father, we love you and we praise you this morning. 69 00:04:14,600 --> 00:04:16,200 God, we're thankful for your word. 70 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,600 We pray now that as we take a closer look at it that you just 71 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:21,200 Pierce our hearts with your truth. 72 00:04:21,500 --> 00:04:24,800 You speak through me that you were honored and glorified 73 00:04:24,800 --> 00:04:27,600 through it all. We praise you this day in Jesus 74 00:04:27,600 --> 00:04:29,700 name. Amen be seated. 75 00:04:32,000 --> 00:04:37,700 So we see in Psalm 33, I don't know about your Bibles, but 76 00:04:37,700 --> 00:04:40,900 there's a title for it. Mine says, the steadfast love of 77 00:04:40,900 --> 00:04:44,700 the Lord and right off the bat. And the first few verses, we see 78 00:04:45,100 --> 00:04:49,500 reference to the Lord over and over, this got me thinking. 79 00:04:49,500 --> 00:04:54,900 Have you ever thought about what the word Lord actually means? 80 00:04:54,900 --> 00:04:58,600 What is a lord? What does it mean to be a lord? 81 00:04:58,900 --> 00:05:01,700 What what's the qualifications for being a? 82 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:04,100 Oh Lord. What does that entail? 83 00:05:05,100 --> 00:05:08,100 And so, I don't know if any of you maybe by show of hands, how 84 00:05:08,108 --> 00:05:09,700 many people have seen Braveheart? 85 00:05:10,700 --> 00:05:12,400 Yeah. It's like the best movie ever, 86 00:05:12,400 --> 00:05:13,800 right? That's like one of my might be 87 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:17,100 my favorite movie. So, in that movie, those of you 88 00:05:17,100 --> 00:05:20,400 have seen it, well no, but if you have it in that movie, no 89 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:21,900 Gibson. Plays the character William 90 00:05:21,900 --> 00:05:25,600 Wallace, he's a Scotsman. And this is, you know, set way 91 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:28,200 back in the day, when England still ruled Scotland, and it's 92 00:05:28,200 --> 00:05:31,600 about how Scotland gained its freedom at the time. 93 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:33,500 So, William Wallace is the good guy. 94 00:05:33,600 --> 00:05:36,000 He's the, the protagonist in the movie. 95 00:05:36,800 --> 00:05:41,700 The bad guy is King, Edward Longshanks and if you've seen 96 00:05:41,700 --> 00:05:45,500 the movie you know that Longshanks was not a good King. 97 00:05:45,800 --> 00:05:49,900 Now he was pretty good at managing Resources by far. 98 00:05:49,900 --> 00:05:53,700 He was great at acquiring riches and more land and all of that 99 00:05:53,700 --> 00:05:58,000 but he was a tyrant. He was an evil Wicked King that 100 00:05:58,000 --> 00:06:03,100 ruled his people through fear and through a heavy hand, The 101 00:06:03,100 --> 00:06:07,200 people, his subjects of England and Scotland were more like 102 00:06:07,200 --> 00:06:09,900 slaves. And if you remember, I won't go 103 00:06:09,900 --> 00:06:13,900 into great detail in this but in the movie he even went so far as 104 00:06:13,900 --> 00:06:17,300 to Institute what's called Prima nocta. 105 00:06:17,300 --> 00:06:20,600 Which is where any time a man? And a woman got married, the 106 00:06:20,600 --> 00:06:25,300 local English officers had right to that woman first before her 107 00:06:25,300 --> 00:06:28,400 husband, which is what leads to the entire movie. 108 00:06:28,400 --> 00:06:31,300 It's just Preposterous and the people got fed up of that. 109 00:06:31,300 --> 00:06:37,000 So, I digress. The point is Longshanks was not 110 00:06:37,400 --> 00:06:42,800 a good King, he was an evil Tyrant that oppressed people. 111 00:06:43,000 --> 00:06:47,100 So as far as being a lord, he was not a good one. 112 00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:50,400 But we hear this a lot, especially back, then people 113 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:53,700 would refer to a king or a master as Lord. 114 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,400 They would say, what must I do for my Lord? 115 00:06:56,600 --> 00:06:58,100 What would my Lord have of me today? 116 00:06:58,100 --> 00:07:00,000 You see this? All in the Bible to you, see 117 00:07:00,000 --> 00:07:01,800 people greet one another that way. 118 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:07,800 So Lord was always a title used and reverence for someone when 119 00:07:07,800 --> 00:07:10,000 you were submitting to someone you were pledging Your 120 00:07:10,000 --> 00:07:12,900 Allegiance to someone by calling them Lord. 121 00:07:14,400 --> 00:07:19,400 So, that begs the question we see in a guy, like Longshanks 122 00:07:19,600 --> 00:07:21,800 what looks like a bad Lord and a bad King. 123 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:30,600 So what makes a good Lord, what makes a good King, I think that 124 00:07:30,600 --> 00:07:33,800 by looking at Psalm 33, we were going to get a very beautiful 125 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,500 picture of what makes a good Lord, and King. 126 00:07:37,500 --> 00:07:41,700 And we will see that in the character of God and we all know 127 00:07:41,700 --> 00:07:46,100 that when it comes down to it, that's what makes a good lord. 128 00:07:46,300 --> 00:07:49,500 It's his character. It's how he rules his people. 129 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,500 It's how he loves his people. What kind of man is he? 130 00:07:53,300 --> 00:07:55,800 And so we're going to get to see that in this song. 131 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:58,600 Today we're going to get to see who God is. 132 00:07:59,000 --> 00:08:02,400 And this is all part of learning more about the Lord, so that we 133 00:08:02,400 --> 00:08:06,600 can align ourselves and align our hearts with his heart. 134 00:08:07,500 --> 00:08:13,600 So, Psalm 33 lays this out beautifully It starts out in 135 00:08:13,600 --> 00:08:17,300 verses 1 through 3, with a call to worship, just like what we 136 00:08:17,300 --> 00:08:20,400 do, every Sunday morning when we recite our call to worship, we 137 00:08:20,400 --> 00:08:23,000 do that. As a way of saying, look we're 138 00:08:23,000 --> 00:08:25,800 all sinners in this place. If you're a visitor here with us 139 00:08:25,800 --> 00:08:29,400 today, welcome, we're here because Jesus has saved us. 140 00:08:29,400 --> 00:08:32,200 He welcomes everybody here. So that's why we're here. 141 00:08:32,200 --> 00:08:34,000 Let's praise together this morning. 142 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:37,100 That's our way of kind of just right out of the gate 143 00:08:37,100 --> 00:08:39,200 instituting. Like we're all here for the same 144 00:08:39,200 --> 00:08:40,900 purpose. None of us is better than the 145 00:08:41,100 --> 00:08:43,600 The other, let's all bow before the Lord and worship today, 146 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:48,800 Psalm 33 verses 1 through 3 again, as they call to worship, 147 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:53,300 if you'll notice the very first word and the very last word in 148 00:08:53,300 --> 00:08:57,700 verse 3 are, shout shout for joy in the Lord. 149 00:08:57,800 --> 00:09:01,800 Oh, you righteous, who is he talking to? 150 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:05,800 He's talking to God's people. Those are the Righteous that I 151 00:09:05,808 --> 00:09:08,000 think the nasb says righteous ones. 152 00:09:08,500 --> 00:09:11,000 These are God's people. This is a call. 153 00:09:11,100 --> 00:09:13,800 All to praise and worship the Lord. 154 00:09:14,300 --> 00:09:18,000 And he's not just saying, hey, if you guys could, let's maybe 155 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,200 stand and sing a little song to the Lord. 156 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:23,500 Maybe Mumble a little bit of something under your breath. 157 00:09:23,500 --> 00:09:28,200 Now, he's saying, Shout. Shout to the Lord sing loudly. 158 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,700 Get excited about it. This is a call to get pumped up 159 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:36,500 about what God's done. The verses one through three are 160 00:09:36,500 --> 00:09:40,500 beautiful in this and it's calling us to use instruments, 161 00:09:40,500 --> 00:09:44,000 use instruments with strings, use the harp, use the liar, use, 162 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:46,900 all these things, like whatever you can get your hands on, sing 163 00:09:46,900 --> 00:09:49,900 to God. Make Melody to him, get excited. 164 00:09:49,900 --> 00:09:53,800 You have reason to be. But that leads us to another 165 00:09:53,800 --> 00:09:57,700 question, right? Why, why should we praise the 166 00:09:57,700 --> 00:10:00,900 Lord? Why, why worship him, man? 167 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:05,900 He's God, we know that but why? And the psalmist lays out, 168 00:10:05,900 --> 00:10:09,300 three, wonderful reasons to praise God. 169 00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,900 So, if you're taking notes, you can write this down, three 170 00:10:12,100 --> 00:10:15,200 reasons why, one through one through three, tell us to praise 171 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:17,500 and we're going to see why in the next verses. 172 00:10:17,600 --> 00:10:22,200 And so, Number one. The first reason why we should 173 00:10:22,200 --> 00:10:26,400 praise the Lord in Verses 4 through 9, we see that the Lord 174 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:30,200 is omnipotent. The Lord is omnipotent. 175 00:10:30,200 --> 00:10:35,200 It looks like omnipotent. What this means is all-powerful 176 00:10:36,500 --> 00:10:43,400 is all potent, is all-powerful, total power, not just a little, 177 00:10:43,600 --> 00:10:47,900 not just a lot all of it. God is all powerful. 178 00:10:48,900 --> 00:10:52,100 Verse 4 says, for the word of the Lord is upright, and all his 179 00:10:52,100 --> 00:10:55,700 work is done in faithfulness. The word of the Lord is upright. 180 00:10:55,700 --> 00:11:00,600 That means correct straight forward to the point, no flaws 181 00:11:00,600 --> 00:11:02,000 in it. This is God's word. 182 00:11:02,000 --> 00:11:02,800 It is. Up. 183 00:11:03,000 --> 00:11:06,500 Right? And it says, by his word, he 184 00:11:06,500 --> 00:11:12,200 created, we see in verses 6 through 8 9, all of that, that 185 00:11:12,300 --> 00:11:17,600 God spoke the world into existence, right by the word of 186 00:11:17,600 --> 00:11:20,700 the Lord, the heavens were made and by the breath of his mouth, 187 00:11:20,700 --> 00:11:24,100 all their hosts. Now, this isn't the only place 188 00:11:24,100 --> 00:11:27,400 we read about this, right? We've seen this in other places 189 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:31,000 in scripture. A great, great example, or the 190 00:11:31,000 --> 00:11:33,900 best place might be in Genesis as we've learned about this in 191 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:37,900 Sunday school Genesis 1, the very first verse of the Bible. 192 00:11:38,500 --> 00:11:42,100 In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth and 193 00:11:42,100 --> 00:11:44,400 then you see subsequent verses on how he did it. 194 00:11:44,900 --> 00:11:50,400 It's just one after another of God said, let there be And then 195 00:11:50,400 --> 00:11:53,300 it became about, it came about verse 3. 196 00:11:53,300 --> 00:11:56,700 God said, let there be light and there was light verse 6. 197 00:11:56,700 --> 00:12:00,300 God, said, let there be an expanse, there was an expanse on 198 00:12:00,300 --> 00:12:04,500 and on, and on and on God said God said God said, so he created 199 00:12:04,600 --> 00:12:09,300 through his word, he spoke creation into existence. 200 00:12:09,300 --> 00:12:12,500 He did not have to work and toil for this to happen. 201 00:12:12,500 --> 00:12:17,700 He didn't even have to speak, but he chose to he created 202 00:12:17,700 --> 00:12:19,800 through speaking it into existence. 203 00:12:19,900 --> 00:12:23,200 Distance through his word. Now, this is what blows my mind 204 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:25,400 that I still haven't fully comprehended. 205 00:12:25,900 --> 00:12:31,800 When it comes to God's word, John chapter, 1 tells us this in 206 00:12:31,800 --> 00:12:36,200 the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the 207 00:12:36,200 --> 00:12:43,200 Word was God. He was in the beginning with 208 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:47,000 God. All things were made through him 209 00:12:47,400 --> 00:12:51,100 and without him was not anything made that was made. 210 00:12:52,100 --> 00:12:57,000 And then verse 14 says, and the word became flesh and dwelt 211 00:12:57,000 --> 00:13:00,000 among us. And we have seen his glory 212 00:13:00,400 --> 00:13:02,900 glory. As of the only son from the 213 00:13:02,900 --> 00:13:11,100 father full of grace and truth, So the word is a person and that 214 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:15,200 person is Jesus Christ. He was with God in the 215 00:13:15,200 --> 00:13:19,400 beginning, the Trinity, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, creating 216 00:13:19,500 --> 00:13:22,700 God, creating through the sun, through his holy word. 217 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,700 But what we see in these verses that God is omnipotent, he is 218 00:13:27,700 --> 00:13:34,600 all-powerful He created by just speaking this world into 219 00:13:34,600 --> 00:13:38,900 existence and we've heard this so much, we take it for granted. 220 00:13:39,000 --> 00:13:43,100 When we walk out these doors, we take for granted a tree and how 221 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:47,500 amazing a tree is or clouds in the sky or the fact that our sky 222 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:51,000 is blue. We just have grown accustomed to 223 00:13:51,000 --> 00:13:53,800 these things. If you really think of our Sky 224 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,100 could be green, our grass could be blue. 225 00:13:57,500 --> 00:14:00,800 Trees could be upside down where the roots are on top, but God 226 00:14:00,800 --> 00:14:03,700 didn't do it that way. He did it, the way it is. 227 00:14:03,800 --> 00:14:05,400 And we've just grown so accustomed to it. 228 00:14:05,400 --> 00:14:09,000 We walk right by but he spoke these things into existence. 229 00:14:10,000 --> 00:14:12,600 He's that powerful. Have you got any of you guys 230 00:14:12,600 --> 00:14:14,600 ever spoke something into existence? 231 00:14:15,700 --> 00:14:20,500 No, this is how amazing and Majestic God is that he can 232 00:14:20,500 --> 00:14:25,500 create just through his words. It is a supreme display of his 233 00:14:25,500 --> 00:14:29,300 power and his might and his majesty and it's amazing. 234 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,200 We can't fathom it. There's no ends to it. 235 00:14:32,200 --> 00:14:35,800 There's no, there's no Plumbing the depths of God's power and 236 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:39,900 his amazing ability. So in Verses 4 through 9, we see 237 00:14:39,900 --> 00:14:44,600 God's. Omnipotence is omnipotent now, 238 00:14:45,700 --> 00:14:49,400 verses 10 through 12. We see another reason we should 239 00:14:49,400 --> 00:14:51,300 Worship the Lord. Another one of his character 240 00:14:51,300 --> 00:14:54,900 qualities or his attributes. The Lord is omniscient 241 00:14:55,800 --> 00:14:58,200 omnipotent. And I believe, it's yeah. 242 00:14:58,600 --> 00:15:01,200 But going to be back here so you can spell it. 243 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:05,200 We just sang about this. And one of our songs earlier God 244 00:15:05,200 --> 00:15:08,500 is omniscient. So, again, You see that word 245 00:15:08,500 --> 00:15:11,900 Omni at the beginning means all or total omniscient means 246 00:15:11,900 --> 00:15:18,000 all-knowing or all-wise. God is all wise and all-knowing. 247 00:15:18,600 --> 00:15:21,400 Look at verses 10 through 12, it says that the Lord brings the 248 00:15:21,400 --> 00:15:23,800 counsel of the nation's to nothing. 249 00:15:23,800 --> 00:15:27,200 He frustrates. The plans of the people's, the 250 00:15:27,200 --> 00:15:32,500 counsel of the Lord stands forever, the plans of his heart 251 00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:36,800 to all generations. Plans Council. 252 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:41,600 This is all talking about for us humans, our own ideas, our own 253 00:15:41,600 --> 00:15:43,900 thoughts of what's right and what's wrong and what would be 254 00:15:43,900 --> 00:15:48,400 best and saying that God takes that and he frustrates it, but 255 00:15:48,400 --> 00:15:51,500 God's plans, God's counsel stands forever. 256 00:15:51,500 --> 00:15:55,100 It's perfect. There is no flaw in God's Will 257 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:59,600 and in God's way, amen. And we see this because he's 258 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:03,200 omniscient. Now we can see pretty clearly. 259 00:16:03,400 --> 00:16:06,400 If you I think you all would agree with me that we can see 260 00:16:06,700 --> 00:16:10,800 looking at our economy right now not going to talk about politics 261 00:16:11,100 --> 00:16:13,800 but I think we can agree if we look at our economy that the 262 00:16:13,800 --> 00:16:18,300 plans of man will always fail when they are not rooted and 263 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:20,600 grounded in God's Will and God's word. 264 00:16:20,600 --> 00:16:24,100 Amen. Anytime anytime, if you look 265 00:16:24,100 --> 00:16:27,400 throughout human history at this world and you see great 266 00:16:27,400 --> 00:16:31,200 civilizations, that became Mighty nation's most of the 267 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:33,600 time. Those were founded in started on 268 00:16:33,600 --> 00:16:36,500 Christianity. All God's will God's word and 269 00:16:36,500 --> 00:16:39,900 then they diverted from that and it all fell apart. 270 00:16:41,400 --> 00:16:46,600 God's plan and God's counsel is the only perfect way because he 271 00:16:46,600 --> 00:16:52,300 is omniscient and we are not. If you look back and verse 5, it 272 00:16:52,300 --> 00:16:54,900 says that he loves righteousness and Justice. 273 00:16:55,700 --> 00:16:59,300 And we know that God is perfect. If there is no flaw in the Lord. 274 00:16:59,300 --> 00:17:02,900 And so he is perfectly righteous and perfectly. 275 00:17:03,100 --> 00:17:07,300 Just so of course, his will. And his plan is going to be 276 00:17:07,300 --> 00:17:09,500 perfect because there is no flaw in him. 277 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:14,900 Now, we can at times, try to be righteous or try to be just but 278 00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:18,300 we're Sinners. And so, every single thing we do 279 00:17:18,300 --> 00:17:21,500 is marred and stained by that sinful nature that we still 280 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:25,000 carry. We can never be perfectly just 281 00:17:25,200 --> 00:17:28,800 or perfectly righteous. Although we might try and so our 282 00:17:28,800 --> 00:17:32,700 plans will fail. Our council is, never the wisest 283 00:17:32,700 --> 00:17:38,000 counsel, but God's plan will God's will prevails because he 284 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:39,700 is omniscient, he is all-knowing. 285 00:17:39,800 --> 00:17:47,900 Owing all-wise. Proverbs 19 verse 21 says that 286 00:17:47,900 --> 00:17:51,600 many are the plans in the mind of a man, but it is the purpose 287 00:17:51,600 --> 00:17:56,000 of the Lord that will stand. I don't know about you, but 288 00:17:56,000 --> 00:17:59,400 there have been many times in my own life that I've thought a 289 00:17:59,400 --> 00:18:01,400 certain direction was the right way to go. 290 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:05,200 And I've followed that only to find out later that that was not 291 00:18:05,200 --> 00:18:07,500 what I should have done. I should have sought the Lord 292 00:18:07,600 --> 00:18:10,800 sought his will for my life and followed his path. 293 00:18:11,900 --> 00:18:14,900 Leave it up to me every single time I'm going to mess it up. 294 00:18:16,100 --> 00:18:20,300 God's ways are higher. I can't comprehend the depth of 295 00:18:20,308 --> 00:18:23,000 his wisdom. I don't understand why he does 296 00:18:23,000 --> 00:18:26,600 things the way he does. But I trust him because he's God 297 00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:30,100 and I'm not. And so it does as well. 298 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:33,900 To remember this and to follow God's path. 299 00:18:33,900 --> 00:18:35,800 Follow his word, follow his will. 300 00:18:36,500 --> 00:18:39,900 If we do, there's a direct result. 301 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:44,000 Look at verse 12. Blessed is the nation, whose God 302 00:18:44,000 --> 00:18:48,000 is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen, as his Heritage, we 303 00:18:48,000 --> 00:18:50,600 know, as I've already mentioned that when a nation went to, 304 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:55,200 people will humble themselves before the Lord seek his will 305 00:18:55,200 --> 00:18:57,800 and follow him. That Nation will be blessed. 306 00:18:58,300 --> 00:19:01,000 Now, in this passage, this is a reference to Israel, of course. 307 00:19:01,200 --> 00:19:04,800 Yes, but it just, it doesn't just apply to Israel. 308 00:19:04,800 --> 00:19:09,200 This still applies to us today. It's common sense that that 309 00:19:09,200 --> 00:19:11,300 would make sense that if a nation will follow the lord, it 310 00:19:11,300 --> 00:19:14,100 will be blessed. But we also know that not 311 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:17,000 everyone who is a descendant of Abraham as a child of Abraham, 312 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,500 amen. It's the children, faith that 313 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:22,900 are children of Abraham that are children of Israel. 314 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:25,500 And so we are that we are children of faith. 315 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:31,700 We share that, that heritage And so, if we will humble ourselves 316 00:19:31,700 --> 00:19:34,900 and follow the lord, we will be blessed. 317 00:19:36,100 --> 00:19:39,000 But ladies and gentlemen, I can tell you that we are in the 318 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:42,000 minority in our nation anymore as Christians. 319 00:19:42,700 --> 00:19:46,800 And so we have a large task ahead of us to stand firm. 320 00:19:46,800 --> 00:19:51,000 In our faith, stand for our faith, the preach, the gospel 321 00:19:51,000 --> 00:19:54,800 and evangelize everywhere. We go, this isn't just a Sunday 322 00:19:54,800 --> 00:19:58,600 morning lifestyle. We take the gospel into our 323 00:19:58,600 --> 00:20:02,700 workplace, into our home, wherever we go, let me spread 324 00:20:02,700 --> 00:20:05,900 the gospel because we know that God's ways are higher and this 325 00:20:05,900 --> 00:20:07,700 leads to true blessing and true life. 326 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:11,200 The third reason that we can Worship the Lord that, if that, 327 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:16,700 we should want to praise God and worship him, is that, the Lord 328 00:20:16,800 --> 00:20:21,100 is omnipresent, Verses 13 through 19. 329 00:20:21,100 --> 00:20:24,000 You see that the Lord is omnipresent. 330 00:20:25,800 --> 00:20:29,500 Look at these verses. The Lord looks down from heaven. 331 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:32,900 He sees all the children of man from here. 332 00:20:32,900 --> 00:20:35,600 He sits enthroned. He looks out on all the 333 00:20:35,600 --> 00:20:38,000 inhabitants of the earth. He who Fashions? 334 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,500 The hearts of them all, and he observes their deeds. 335 00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:44,500 And then, in verse 18, behold, the eye of the Lord is on those 336 00:20:44,500 --> 00:20:46,600 who fear Him. So, we just see over and over 337 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:52,900 this idea of the Lord seeing and watching and looking This shows 338 00:20:52,900 --> 00:20:57,300 that God is omnipresent, God is not limited by space and time to 339 00:20:57,300 --> 00:21:00,000 one place. God can be everywhere at the 340 00:21:00,000 --> 00:21:02,000 same time. We know that the Holy Spirit 341 00:21:02,100 --> 00:21:05,900 lives inside all of us, right? But God can be everywhere. 342 00:21:05,900 --> 00:21:09,100 He's, he knows the future. He knows the past, he's not 343 00:21:09,100 --> 00:21:15,400 limited by space and time. Psalm 139 verse 7 says this, 344 00:21:15,400 --> 00:21:19,600 where shall I go from your spirit or where shall I? 345 00:21:19,600 --> 00:21:22,800 Flee from your presence. If I Ascend into heaven, you 346 00:21:22,800 --> 00:21:26,400 were there. If I make my bed and she'll you 347 00:21:26,400 --> 00:21:30,700 were there, if I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the 348 00:21:30,700 --> 00:21:33,500 uttermost parts of the sea, even there. 349 00:21:33,600 --> 00:21:37,200 Your hand shall lead me. And your right hand shall hold 350 00:21:37,200 --> 00:21:40,200 me. God is everywhere. 351 00:21:40,900 --> 00:21:43,700 We cannot Escape The Gaze of the Lord. 352 00:21:43,700 --> 00:21:47,700 He discerns. All, he sees all he knows all 353 00:21:49,900 --> 00:21:55,100 Verses 16 and 17 say that the king is not saved by his army. 354 00:21:55,100 --> 00:21:58,500 The warrior not delivered by a strength and that the war horse 355 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:02,200 is a false hope for salvation, even by its great light, it 356 00:22:02,200 --> 00:22:07,700 cannot rescue. Our hope is not in back then. 357 00:22:07,900 --> 00:22:11,900 And even now our hope is not, in Kings, our hope is not in 358 00:22:12,000 --> 00:22:15,600 Warriors. Our hope is not in war horses. 359 00:22:16,900 --> 00:22:20,700 Is mighty and Majestic, as they may be, our hope is not in 360 00:22:20,700 --> 00:22:23,800 presidents. Our hope is not in armies. 361 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:27,200 Our hope is not in planes and tanks or any of that. 362 00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:32,200 Our hope is In Christ Alone, Christ, and Christ Alone. 363 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:33,900 That is where our hope comes from. 364 00:22:33,900 --> 00:22:37,900 That is where our Salvation comes from, and no one else can 365 00:22:37,900 --> 00:22:42,300 offer this. No, King no president, no 366 00:22:42,300 --> 00:22:48,500 Nation, no Army will save you. Christ, Alone can save you and 367 00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:52,000 he sees and discerns. All he is always with us. 368 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 Always watching. And this is what's beautiful. 369 00:22:58,300 --> 00:23:03,400 Look at verses 18 and 19. The eye of the Lord is on those 370 00:23:03,400 --> 00:23:09,100 who fear Him on those, who hope in his steadfast love that, he 371 00:23:09,100 --> 00:23:13,200 may deliver their soul from death and keep them alive and 372 00:23:13,200 --> 00:23:16,300 famine. Anytime you see that word that 373 00:23:16,300 --> 00:23:18,700 like like that you could put a so in front of it. 374 00:23:19,000 --> 00:23:24,300 So that the Lord is watching, he's watching those who fear 375 00:23:24,300 --> 00:23:27,500 Him. Now we know the word fear can 376 00:23:27,500 --> 00:23:31,400 mean to be afraid of and absolutely a god, this power 377 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:33,600 Powerful. And this wise in this 378 00:23:33,600 --> 00:23:36,200 all-knowing, I do. I that does strike a little fear 379 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,800 in my heart as a sinner. I don't want to be under that, 380 00:23:38,800 --> 00:23:43,100 Judgment of that God but fear. Also in this context, means to 381 00:23:43,100 --> 00:23:48,100 Revere to have a reverence and respect for and an all four. 382 00:23:48,100 --> 00:23:52,700 And that's why it tells us to be in all of him, just astonished 383 00:23:52,700 --> 00:23:56,200 it is greatness. God Is Watching. 384 00:23:56,400 --> 00:23:59,400 He is waiting for those who will put their trust and their hope 385 00:23:59,400 --> 00:24:03,400 and their their fear in him so that he can deliver them. 386 00:24:04,900 --> 00:24:07,600 So that he can deliver them. He's not doing this like a 387 00:24:07,600 --> 00:24:12,000 Longshanks Tyrant that just wants to to come down on people 388 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:15,200 and Rule us with a heavy hand. He's watching so that when we 389 00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:19,200 cast our cares and Our Hope on him, he can save us from our 390 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:22,200 sins. That should, that should be a 391 00:24:22,208 --> 00:24:26,400 reason for us to praise God. To know that when I don't know 392 00:24:26,400 --> 00:24:28,300 where else to turn. I don't know what to Hope in her 393 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:30,800 trust when I turned to the Lord. He's there waiting, he's 394 00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:35,000 watching, he's eager to save. To forgive. 395 00:24:37,000 --> 00:24:39,900 He's always there. He knows all he's all-powerful, 396 00:24:39,900 --> 00:24:43,900 he sees all nothing is hidden from his eye. 397 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:49,900 And so because God is all-powerful, he's omnipotent 398 00:24:50,400 --> 00:24:56,500 because God is all knowing, he's omniscient and because God is 399 00:24:56,500 --> 00:25:00,400 everywhere, and he sees all and discerns, all, he's omnipresent 400 00:25:01,200 --> 00:25:06,900 his counsel never fails, his will is perfect, his way is good 401 00:25:06,900 --> 00:25:11,300 and salvation everlasting life Waits on us. 402 00:25:11,300 --> 00:25:15,200 If we will align ourselves and align our hearts with his. 403 00:25:15,700 --> 00:25:19,000 If we will seek the Lord and seek to live our lives like 404 00:25:19,000 --> 00:25:20,900 Christ, that's what Waits For Us. 405 00:25:21,500 --> 00:25:24,500 Blessing, as we see a nation that fears, the Lord will be 406 00:25:24,500 --> 00:25:27,400 blessed, will be saved when we call on the Lord. 407 00:25:28,300 --> 00:25:32,100 This is what awaits those who trust and hope and God. 408 00:25:32,500 --> 00:25:34,800 And so, for those of us who have done that, we have reason to 409 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:39,100 Rejoice, we've been saved God's blessed us and that's what this 410 00:25:39,100 --> 00:25:42,700 song is all about. When we remember the goodness of 411 00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:45,200 God and the greatness of God his power. 412 00:25:45,300 --> 00:25:49,600 Our in his mind, and his wisdom, it shouldn't make us fear him. 413 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:52,100 Like be afraid of him. It should make us excited 414 00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:55,000 because this is our King. This is our Lord. 415 00:25:55,500 --> 00:25:58,400 Not a Longshanks, but Jesus Christ. 416 00:26:00,400 --> 00:26:06,000 Look at verses 20 through 22. Because of these things because 417 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,400 of God's amazing character and attributes. 418 00:26:10,500 --> 00:26:15,000 We wait for the Lord, our soul waits, for the Lord for he is 419 00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:17,700 our help. He is our Shield. 420 00:26:18,800 --> 00:26:23,300 Our heart is glad in him because we trust in him. 421 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:29,300 In His holy name. let your steadfast love O, Lord be upon 422 00:26:29,300 --> 00:26:37,800 us even as we hope in you we wait we trust and we hope We 423 00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:43,700 pray, we fast. We wait knowing that I don't 424 00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:48,200 understand God's ways all the time but I know for a fact that 425 00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:54,500 he's good but he's wise that he's powerful and so I trust and 426 00:26:54,500 --> 00:26:59,600 I hope and I'll wait and I'll pray and I'm patient I call out 427 00:26:59,600 --> 00:27:06,500 to him. He is the only one worthy of Our 428 00:27:06,500 --> 00:27:07,900 Praise. Amen. 429 00:27:08,300 --> 00:27:10,500 He's the only one worthy of our worship. 430 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:15,400 We are sinners our Council will fail. 431 00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:18,200 We are not all-powerful, we are not all wise who are not 432 00:27:18,200 --> 00:27:22,300 all-knowing, but God is, and because of this, because of his 433 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:27,100 amazing character, his majesty and Splendor, we can gladly 434 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:31,500 submit to that King said that Lord and say I will follow this 435 00:27:31,500 --> 00:27:35,600 King, I will follow this Lord because not only is he amazing, 436 00:27:35,600 --> 00:27:37,900 not only is he powerful but he loves me. 437 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:41,800 He loves me. I will gladly submit to that. 438 00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:47,300 King gladly follow him to the depths of hell if I have to but 439 00:27:47,300 --> 00:27:50,900 thankfully I don't have to worship team. 440 00:27:50,900 --> 00:27:55,000 You guys can come back up. I'm going to wrap this up. 441 00:27:56,500 --> 00:28:00,400 I want to point out something. that's not even in this song, 442 00:28:00,400 --> 00:28:07,600 but I think we have to mention Psalm 33 paints a really 443 00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:10,800 beautiful picture of God's character that Absol. 444 00:28:10,800 --> 00:28:14,000 Absolutely should elicit. Praise from us. 445 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,600 It's it should cause us. To want to worship him when we 446 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:24,000 remember all these things. It's so easy to forget, God's 447 00:28:24,100 --> 00:28:26,600 majesty and his power and his wisdom. 448 00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:29,600 So easy to forget. So when we remember these things 449 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:32,400 and we read a Psalm like this, it should it should make us want 450 00:28:32,400 --> 00:28:35,900 to say, wow, what an amazing God. 451 00:28:35,900 --> 00:28:37,900 We serve hallelujah. Thank you. 452 00:28:37,900 --> 00:28:41,100 Lord, that I get the privilege to worship you. 453 00:28:43,000 --> 00:28:48,300 But perhaps the most amazing attribute or quality that God 454 00:28:48,300 --> 00:28:53,400 shows is not any of these. Perhaps his most amazing. 455 00:28:53,500 --> 00:28:55,500 Attribute, is his great love for us. 456 00:28:57,100 --> 00:28:59,900 Romans 5:8 says that God demonstrates his love for us in 457 00:28:59,900 --> 00:29:04,500 this while we were still sinners Christ died for us. 458 00:29:06,500 --> 00:29:11,400 That is why we trust him. That is why we put our hope and 459 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:15,200 our faith in him because not only is he a, is he a powerful 460 00:29:15,500 --> 00:29:18,900 wise King? Worthy of adoration? 461 00:29:20,000 --> 00:29:23,100 But even though he is so powerful and wise and worthy of 462 00:29:23,100 --> 00:29:27,300 adoration, he humbled himself and gave his son to be murdered 463 00:29:27,300 --> 00:29:30,800 for us. He's not a Lord and a king that 464 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,600 demands praise and adoration and demands that we be in subjection 465 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:39,200 to him. He is a king that freely offers 466 00:29:39,200 --> 00:29:43,000 life to all that. Want it a free gift to us. 467 00:29:45,500 --> 00:29:49,500 Calling Christ. Lord is not a burden. 468 00:29:50,700 --> 00:29:54,500 Not like being under the lordship of a Longshanks calling 469 00:29:54,500 --> 00:29:58,200 Christ. Lord is freedom, and it is only 470 00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,000 there that we will find true Freedom. 471 00:30:00,900 --> 00:30:05,200 He tells us in Matthew 11:28 through 30, come to me, all you, 472 00:30:05,200 --> 00:30:07,900 who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 473 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:10,600 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for. 474 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,200 I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your 475 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:15,900 souls. For my yoke is easy. 476 00:30:16,700 --> 00:30:21,200 And my burden is light. You guys know that if a yoke is 477 00:30:21,200 --> 00:30:24,000 the wooden part, they would put on the ox, to pull carts and 478 00:30:24,000 --> 00:30:26,400 stuff. And so he's saying, look, my 479 00:30:26,400 --> 00:30:28,800 yoke is easy and my burden is light. 480 00:30:29,700 --> 00:30:34,200 If you're tired, if you're weary come to Christ, he is 481 00:30:34,200 --> 00:30:38,500 all-powerful all-wise all-knowing All-Seeing, but he 482 00:30:38,500 --> 00:30:42,000 humbles himself enough to come live and take on flesh and die 483 00:30:42,000 --> 00:30:45,400 for us. That's a king I can submit to. 484 00:30:46,900 --> 00:30:50,800 That is a king. I will give my life to And 485 00:30:50,800 --> 00:30:54,300 that's what were called to do. This song should make us want to 486 00:30:54,300 --> 00:30:58,500 do that pledge. Our entire life, to Jesus 487 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:02,300 Christ, to being a follower of Christ giving ourselves to him 488 00:31:02,300 --> 00:31:05,300 fully. So I beg you, I'm pleased with 489 00:31:05,300 --> 00:31:07,500 you this morning if you have not ever done that to do. 490 00:31:07,500 --> 00:31:13,100 So put your trust in your faith and your hope in Christ Pledge, 491 00:31:13,100 --> 00:31:17,100 Your Life to him, be his follower, but understand that, 492 00:31:17,100 --> 00:31:22,000 to do this, you were submitting to his rule to his lordship. 493 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:24,700 You are no longer king of your own life. 494 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:27,900 You're gladly submitting to his Rule and reign. 495 00:31:29,600 --> 00:31:32,600 If you have never done this, I beg you to do it. 496 00:31:32,600 --> 00:31:38,100 And if you have Then remember remember who he is, remember his 497 00:31:38,100 --> 00:31:42,100 great attributes, and how powerful and Majestic, he is, 498 00:31:42,100 --> 00:31:46,900 and his love for you and what he did for you already, remember 499 00:31:46,900 --> 00:31:49,000 that and praise him this morning. 500 00:31:50,900 --> 00:31:54,300 Praise him, do that. And one great way that we 501 00:31:54,300 --> 00:31:59,700 remember what the Lord has done for us is through communion 502 00:31:59,800 --> 00:32:03,300 which is also known as the Lord's Supper. 503 00:32:04,400 --> 00:32:08,400 This is a supper we do in honor of our Lord and King I'm going 504 00:32:08,400 --> 00:32:10,700 to pray for us in just a moment. Then Kyle's going to come up and 505 00:32:10,700 --> 00:32:13,100 lead us through communion but I want to encourage you all. 506 00:32:14,400 --> 00:32:17,700 If you're a believer in this place, take this opportunity 507 00:32:18,000 --> 00:32:22,000 during the Lord's Supper to remember is his character and 508 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:24,300 who he is as God. And remember what he did for you 509 00:32:24,300 --> 00:32:29,800 and then we sing do. What Psalm 33 says in verses 12. 510 00:32:29,800 --> 00:32:32,300 Verses three that first and last word was what? 511 00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,000 Shout Shout to the Lord this morning. 512 00:32:36,000 --> 00:32:38,400 Don't whisper it. Don't sing under your breath 513 00:32:38,400 --> 00:32:40,500 because you're afraid somebody besides, he's going to hear you 514 00:32:40,500 --> 00:32:44,100 off-key who cares? Sing to the top of your lungs. 515 00:32:44,200 --> 00:32:46,800 Almost to a god that deserves your worship this morning. 516 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:49,600 Amen. Pray with me. 517 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:51,900 Lord, we love you. We praise you. 518 00:32:51,900 --> 00:32:53,700 We thank you. God, for today, we thank you for 519 00:32:53,700 --> 00:32:56,300 your holy word. We thank you most of all for 520 00:32:56,300 --> 00:32:58,800 your character. We thank you for your son. 521 00:32:58,800 --> 00:33:00,700 Jesus. God, we're grateful that you 522 00:33:00,700 --> 00:33:06,500 were a Lord and a king that loves us and that rules the easy 523 00:33:06,500 --> 00:33:09,800 yolk and an easy burden. And God we gladly submit to you 524 00:33:09,800 --> 00:33:11,700 today. I pray for anyone in this place 525 00:33:11,700 --> 00:33:13,500 it is never trusted you that they would do so. 526 00:33:13,500 --> 00:33:16,800 Now I would love you and we praise you in Jesus name. 527 00:33:17,000 --> 00:33:15,800 Amen. I would love you and we praise 528 00:33:15,800 --> 00:33:17,400 you in Jesus name. Amen.